The state has approved the City of Waterbury’s proposal to use $500,000 from an environmental settlement to create a park anchoring the proposed Waterbury Naugatuck River Greenway.
The money is from a $1.8 million settlement between state environmental regulators and G&K, an industrial launderer in Waterbury. G&K was accused of emitting toxins that threatened public health, the state Department of Environmental Protection said Monday.
When completed, the greenway will consist of a seven-acre nature park along with parking, a trailhead, rest area, boat launch, nature trail and other park amenities. The park will anchor the southernmost section of the Waterbury greenway, which will be the first section to be designed and constructed.
Sisters Miriam Camp “Mimi” Niederman and her sister Nancy Camp, daughters of Orton P. Camp Jr., former chairman of The Platt Brothers & Co. metal works in Waterbury, donated the park land to the city.
